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terça-feira, 18 de janeiro de 2011

The book was written by José Saramago, a Portuguese writer. The story is about an inexplicable blindness epidemic. At the beginning of the story, a character scream “ I am blind” and the blindness spreads to everyone in that town, which the writer gives no name to. Authorities do not know what to do, so they decided to leave all the sick people in an abandoned bughouse. Over there people fight for survival, and they act like selfish animals. Also, there is a character who is not blind; she is the wife of a man who first became sick. The woman doesn’t know whether she is blessed or cursed by being able to see in the land of the blind because she is the only one who can see the most beautiful and scariest scenes of the place. The book lets us explore our real conscience.

Vocabulary:

Written by = escrito por

Blindness = cegueira

Blind = cego

Spread to = espalhar por

Sick = doente

Bughouse = manicômio

Survival = sobrevivência

Selfish = egoísta

Wife = esposa

Whether = se

Blessed = abençoada

Cursed = amaldiçoada

Land of the blind = terra de cego

Scariest = a mais amendrontadora

VOCABULARY

Dear Students,

Click on the link bellow to do some nice exercises to practice your vocabulary about movies. At the end you can check your answers. You also can do the exercises many times.

The movie BLINDNESS was directed by a Brazilian called Fernando Meirelles, when José Saramago saw the movie for the first time, he felt very happy. Now let's see the video which shows Saramago's first reaction: